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Antônio Costa
Spirituality & Myth
History & CivilizationsWho is Antônio Costa in the Agency editorial?
Antônio Costa is a figure in the origin story of Santo Daime as told in Research.2 of the Agency editorial, an edition published only in Portuguese. The edition presents him as a countryman of Raimundo Irineu Serra who had migrated to Acre during the rubber cycle, and as the person who introduced Irineu to the Peruvian rubber tappers through whom he first met Ayahuasca.
In short
Antônio Costa appears in Research.2, the edition about Ayahuasca, in the passage on the origins of Santo Daime. The edition says that between 1913 and 1915 Raimundo Irineu moved to Brasiléia, on the border with Bolivia, looking for countrymen who had also migrated to Acre during the rubber cycle, the brothers André and Antônio Costa. Around 1918 Irineu had his first contact with Ayahuasca in the forests of Peru through Peruvian rubber tappers introduced by Antônio Costa. In later sessions, with a brew prepared by Irineu and Antônio Costa, a female entity manifested first to Antônio and then to Irineu, who in the end received the mission that, according to the edition, Antônio Costa had refused.
Key facts
- Where does the Agency editorial name Antônio Costa?
- Only in Research.2, the edition about Ayahuasca published in Portuguese on 24 September 2026, in the passage about Raimundo Irineu Serra and the beginning of Santo Daime.
- What is his role in Irineu's first contact with Ayahuasca?
- The edition says that, around 1918, Irineu had his first contact with Ayahuasca in the forests of Peru through Peruvian rubber tappers introduced by Antônio Costa.
- What does the edition say about the mission?
- It says a female entity manifested first to Antônio and then to Irineu, and that at the end of Irineu's initiation she handed him an orange, transferring to him the mission that Antônio Costa had refused.
How does Research.2 present Antônio Costa?
Research.2 tells that, before starting Santo Daime, between 1913 and 1915, Raimundo Irineu moved to Brasiléia, on the border with Bolivia, where he looked for countrymen who had also migrated to Acre during the rubber cycle: the brothers André and Antônio Costa. Irineu found them, and the edition says it was only some years later, around 1918, that he had his first contact with Ayahuasca in the forests of Peru, through Peruvian rubber tappers introduced by Antônio Costa.
What part does he have in the founding vision of Santo Daime?
According to the edition, Irineu drank the brew on other occasions without feeling any effect and almost gave up, until later sessions with a medicine prepared by Irineu himself and Antônio Costa. A female entity then manifested first to Antônio and afterwards directly to Irineu.
The edition goes on to tell Irineu's eight days of isolation in the forest. On the eighth day the entity revealed herself as the Virgin of Conception, the Queen of the Forest, and handed Irineu an orange symbolizing the world, transferring to him the mission that Antônio Costa had refused. The edition says nothing else about Antônio Costa, and this entry adds nothing from outside it.
Source editions
Where this entry comes from in the Agency editorial.